Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources.
Apple Inc <AAPL.O> dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company’s iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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